Feb 20, 2020 - Sale 2530

Sale 2530 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
TO ASPIRING WRITER: "WORK AND FIGHT WITH THE PUBLIC--IT'S THE ONLY SCHOOL" ZOLA, ÉMILE. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed recipient ("my dear colleague"), in French, thanking him for his sympathy, and declining to help because fruitful work can only be done in solitude. 2 pages, 8vo, written on separate sheets; remnants of prior mounting at upper edge verso, folds, faint scattered soiling. Médan, 23 June 1886

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". . . I beg you, do not give in to advice or any sort of support from me just because I have a passion for literature. Nothing is fruitful except solitary effort, voluntary effort, free of any influence or protection. . . .
". . . You do not need me: work and fight with the public--it's the only school."